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Practically everyone (87%) over 50 who goes online uses e-mail, according to a survey by AXA Group, a financial-services firm. What's even newer is how many in this group (81%) have discovered the magic of Google and other search sites. "They are finding information that helps them identify and participate in interest groups," says Ken Gelman, director of marketing research at AXA. "They use the Net to help them focus...
...also reaped the benefits of increased consumer interest in the material. In 2000, sales of the company's Green Sleep natural-latex mattresses represented only 20% of total revenues, vs. those of innerspring mattresses. In 2006 Sleeptek's sales of natural-latex mattresses from Green Sleep and its newer Obasan line--up 30% from 2005--were 60% of the company's $4 million revenues...
...last April, says Eric de Montgolfier, a managing partner at Edmond de Rothschild. The store, which Bonpoint executives claim is the largest luxury children's shop in the world, occupies the ground floor of a 17th century hôtel particulier and winds around a large neat garden to a newer wing. Shoppers and their parents wander through parlors with fireplaces, moldings and parquet de Versailles, and the 300-piece collection is deployed throughout. Boys' clothing is in the back, shoes are up the stairs, and there's a VIP room for celebrity clients. Children head straight for the playhouse...
Most readers probably know Kingsolver from the award-winning “Poisonwood Bible,” published two years before “Prodigal Summer.” Like “Poisonwood,” the newer novel explores the relationship between people and the land they live on, this time in southern Appalachia. Kingsolver interweaves three story strands set in the fictional Zebulon County near the border of North Carolina and Tennessee. In this small farming community on the edge of a great forest, the contact between human and nature is still immediate and meaningful...
...Newspapers are still highly profitable businesses that have substantial market share in terms of overall ad spending. But the problem facing the industry is that their revenue growth is impaired; advertisers are shifting dollars away to newer media. I don't profess the demise of the newspaper industry; there's a time and a need for them. But there are real structural changes going on in the industry. There is a significant pricing gap between new media and old media. The cost to reach 1,000 people is $20 for newspapers, but just $5 for those online. Advertisers definitely have...